Originally Posted by pxboii
Hi all,
Has anyone had experience touring on a swift(xootr)? I'm planning to tour from Calgary to Jasper in the rockies this summer. There are few mtn passes and some are 15% grade.
thank you
A quick help would be to install an 11/34 mega range cassette (which I did on mine) with a 52 chainring, that would give you approximately 29 to 91 gear-inches... I found that a little low for my use and changed out the front chainring to a 58t.. now it's 32 to 101 which seems good for me right now. Short of a SRAM dualdrive (nice unit) or a Schlumpf (also nice), Wav's double chainring is a fine way to go to give you an additional 2 more lower gears and stretching a 307% overall range out to around 412% ..
Bruce